Edgewater City Council Agenda: July 19, 2022 | #citycouncil
Posted By: joelnewton Jul 16, 2022 The Edgewater City Council will meet for a Business Meeting and Work Session on Tuesday, July 19 starting at 6:30 p.m. This meeting will be held virtually and in-person. During the Business Meeting, City Council continue discussing a potential new City ordinance prohibiting the open carrying of firearms. […]
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Wildfires and climbing temperatures have caused a 6.7 percent decline since 1985 — ScienceDaily
The State of California is banking on its forests to help reduce planet-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. But that element of the state’s climate-change solution arsenal may be in jeopardy, as new research from the University of California, Irvine reports that trees in California’s mountain ranges and open spaces are dying from wildfires and […]
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Ed Rasmuson remembered for putting Alaska ahead of politics | #alaska | #politics
Ed Rasmuson at the Rasmuson Wing of the Anchorage Museum in 2020. (Kyle Seago/Magnetic North via Rasmuson Foundation) Alaska lost a champion and a colossal philanthropist when retired banker Ed Rasmuson died Tuesday at age 81. Friends and leaders around the state remembered him as an unflashy guy who was fiercely dedicated to Alaska. Through […]
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Beverly Hills mayor launches mental wellness series with Holocaust survivor Edith Eger
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (KABC) — Beverly Hills Mayor Lili Bossi launched a mental wellness series at City Hall Friday, in which she described the weight of the pandemic, the political divide, and a recent series of antisemitic flyers in the city. “I felt like there was a sense of darkness and I really needed to […]
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Recent Supreme Court EPA ruling will negatively impact Arkansas, activist says
An Arkansas environmental leader says a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon emissions will have negative consequences for the state. The 6-3 decision was handed down on June 30 in the case of West Virginia v. EPA. As NPR News reported, it’s unique as the high court […]
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San Diego is working to address police understaffing, La Jolla Town Council is told | #citycouncil
City and police officials say they are taking various steps to address staffing shortages in the San Diego Police Department. Police Lt. Rick Aguilar told the La Jolla Town Council during its July 14 meeting that staffing levels are low in the department’s Northern Division, which includes La Jolla. On July 14, he said, the […]
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Thomas Francis Barton | Republican-American | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
BRADENTON, Fla. – Thomas F. Barton passed away at home in Bradenton, Fla., on May 20, 2022, at the age of 91. Thomas was born in Waterbury, Conn., Feb. 15, 1931. After high school, Thomas entered the service in the Army, but was chosen to be a Marine. He was a Korean War veteran. He […]
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Sporadic monitoring in California oil country adds to air pollution concerns
This is the second in a two-part series about oil and gas emissions in the San Joaquin Valley originally published by Capital and Main. Read the first story here. Just outside the small oil town of McKittrick, five large steam generators resembling a row of chimneys and operated by Sentinel Peak Resources rise over the […]
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US agencies temporarily barred from enforcing LGBTQ guidance – WISH-TV | Indianapolis News | Indiana Weather | #alaska | #politics
(AP) — A judge in Tennessee has temporarily barred two federal agencies from enforcing directives issued by President Joe Biden’s administration that extended protections for LGBTQ people in schools and workplaces. U.S. District Judge Charles Atchley Jr. in an order on Friday ruled for the 20 state attorneys general who sued last August claiming the Biden administration […]
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Willie Wilson top campaign cash for Chicago mayor
Seven months before she must face voters for reelection as Chicago’s mayor, Lori Lightfoot has nearly $2.6 million in her campaign funds — more than any of her opponents except one but still not enough to secure an overwhelming advantage or scare off new candidates from joining the field, campaign finance records show. Businessman Willie […]
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